This article marks the occasion of Social Science Research's 50th anniversary by reflecting
on the progress of sequence analysis (SA) since its introduction into the social sciences four …

There is a paucity of longitudinal studies in online learning across courses or throughout
programs. Our study intends to add to this emerging body of research by analyzing the …

Research has repeatedly demonstrated that students with effective learning strategies are
more likely to have better academic achievement. Existing research has mostly focused on a …

Collaborative knowledge construction (CKC) requires individual group members to share
information and resources, sustain the improvement of ideas through peer interactions, and …

Student engagement has a trajectory (a timeline) that unfolds over time and can be shaped
by different factors including learners' motivation, school conditions, and the nature of …

A prevailing trend in CSCL literature has been the study of students' participatory roles. The
majority of existing studies examine a single collaborative task or, at most, a complete …

Panel data has become the gold standard for causal assessments of complex human
behaviour in quantitative social science. The objective of this review is to examine and …

Sequence analysis is being more and more widely used for the analysis of social sequences
and other multivariate categorical time series data. However, it is often complex to describe …

This chapter presents an introduction to Markovian modeling for the analysis of sequence
data. Contrary to the deterministic approach seen in the previous sequence analysis …

Supporting teaching and learning programming with learning analytics is an active area of
inquiry. Most data used for learning analytics research comes from learning management …